The PLA logistics work conference held an awarding ceremony yesterday in Beijing to
award 141 important scientific and technological achievements and outstanding
scientific and technological workers in the logistics field such as Wu Mengchao
and others. Liao Xilong, member of the Central Military Commission and director
of the General Logistics Department of the PLA, attended the ceremony and
delivered a speech.
Liao pointed out that the National Conference on Science and Technology,
which concluded a couple of days ago, had charted a direction for logistical
scientific and technological development of the PLA. The logistics departments
of the PLA must resolutely carry through the strategic decision and arrangements
made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, earnestly implement the
important instructions of Chairman Hu Jintao and strive to improve the
scientific and technological level and innovation capability of the military
logistics under the guidance of the scientific outlook on development.
Liao emphasized that the PLA must build a modern logistics by relying
closely on scientific and technological progress, and must create a favorable
environment for scientific and technological development so as to ensure the
healthy development of independent innovation in logistical science and
technologies and work hard to bring independent innovation in logistics to
fruition so as to realize the grand goal of information-oriented logistics.
At the awarding ceremony, Liao presented prize cup, medal and honor album to Academician Wu
Mengchao, and called on all those working in the logistics departments of the
PLA, especially scientific and technological workers, to learn from Wu
Mengchao and constantly enhance their independent innovation capability and make
their contributions to the building of modern logistics in an all-round
way.
The awarding ceremony was presided over by Sun Dafa, commissar of the
General Logistics Department of the PLA.
By Fan Juwei and Tang
Xiangdong
(Jan.13, PLA Daily)